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15:                    Title: The Rhythm of Political Oratory
16-                   Author: [14]Varvara Danilina
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28-   My doctoral dissertation was completed after four years of research on
29:   the rhythm of British and American political oratory. I sought to
30-   establish the rhythmic norm for political public speech and to find
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35-   political science.
36:   There is no single linguistic perspective on speech rhythm. For
37-   instance, such distinguished scholars as D. Crystal and D. Abercrombie
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39-   to Moscow University school of thought, to which I belong, speech
40:   rhythm is created by a blend of phonetics, syntax and meaning of an
41-   utterance. As a result of my research, I established rhythmic
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54-   own contribution consisted in adapting this method to the study of
55:   public speech, describing the typical rhythm of political oratory, and
56:   challenging some popular assumptions about speech rhythm.
57:   As for the impact of speech rhythm upon listeners, I started by
58-   analyzing audiences in order to understand psychological, social and
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74-   Congress in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
75:   To analyze the reactions of these audiences to the rhythm of Prime
76-   Minister Major and President Bush's parliamentary addresses I used M.
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81-   These phrases and syntagmas happened to be quite similar in terms of
82:   rhythm to other stretches of speech in the same addresses. Moreover,
83-   there proved to be little rhythmic difference between John Major and
84-   George Bush's speeches. In short, my research demonstrated that there
85:   is no direct interconnection between the rhythm of a public address and
86-   audience responses.